Anonymous Monk, I have put together a small search engine using ODBC, but I didn't use a hash to store my results. I embeded & called my SELECT, generating all the html within a while loop. Here is a stripped down version of what I used.
use DBI;

# Connect to the database
my $DSN = 'driver=Microsoft Access Driver (*.mdb);dbq=database1.mdb';
my $dbh = DBI->connect("dbi:ODBC:$DSN") || die "Couldn't open database
+: $DBI::errstr;";

# Build a query
my $SQL1 = $dbh->prepare(<<End_SQL) || die "Couldnt prepare statement:
+ $DBI::errstr;";
select NAME_FIELD, TITLE_FIELD, EMAIL_FIELD FROM TBL_PEOPLE WHERE (TIT
+LE LIKE 'monk') ORDER BY NAME
End_SQL

# Execute the query
$SQL1->execute() || die "Couldn't execute statement: $DBI::errstr; sto
+pped";

while ( my ($resultField1, $resultField2, $resultField3) = $SQL1->fetc
+hrow_array() ) {

    # perform any formatting/storage/etc with each record
}

# Disconnect from the database
$dbh->disconnect();

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The fields which stored the information from $SQL1->fetchrow_array() must coincide both in the number and order of the fields mentioned at the start of the SELECT statement.

- Big K

In reply to Re: Perl-odbc by Big K
in thread Perl-odbc by Anonymous Monk

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